This short report discusses South Africa’s Tobacco and Vapes Bill, the regulatory trends, public opinion and current talking points, as well as what is still to come…

This report analyses the enforcement for the sale and taxation of tobacco products across the following states: Washington, Kansas, New Hampshire and Texas…

This report analyses the current status of proposals to grant regions the authority to ban e-cigarettes, and it assesses broader potential regulatory developments in the nicotine sector, including licensing requirements and proposed track-and-trace measures for e-cigarette and heated tobacco devices…

This Q&A report analyses the key regulatory details and legislative process for the proposed technical regulation on nicotine-containing products and nicotine-free products for the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU)…

This report highlights the most significant changes in the December 2025 update of our EU environmental tracker, covering general environmental and sustainability policy proposals and adopted instruments affecting the vaping sector within the EU…

This short report explores potential future regulatory outcomes, from controlled regulation to an outright ban, and presents ECigIntelligence’s assessment of the scenario deemed most likely…

This Q&A report outlines the political, public health, and legal factors driving the new proposal to criminalise the manufacture, import, distribution, and sale of electronic nicotine products, reinforcing the ban on these products…

This report outlines the results of our fourth MEP survey on new nicotine products, covering topics such as product awareness, risk and regulation…

This report analyses the recent marketing denial order appeal brought by six manufacturers against the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and evaluates the potential impact on the FDA regulatory framework…

This report provides a narrative summary of the known positions of European Union member states’ governments on proposed EU fiscal policies – specifically, two aspects of current fiscal discussions at the EU level…

This report provides a general overview of the import requirements of vapes in the MENA region, which includes Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Algeria, Iraq, and Iran…

This report provides details of excise tax policy and rates in Europe and covers related tax obligations, such as tax stamps and warehouses…

This Q&A report will assess the likelihood of regions being granted the authority to to impose a complete ban on e-cigarettes…

The report is structured as a Q&A and focuses on forecasting and analysing some specific answers in relation to the revision of the EU’s Tobacco Taxation Directive…

This report provides details of excise tax in the Middle East and North Africa region, covering regulatory frameworks, variations in the basis for calculating tax and mechanisms in place to ensure compliance…

This report highlights the most significant changes in the August 2025 update of our EU environmental tracker, covering general environmental and sustainability policy proposals and adopted instruments affecting the vaping sector within the EU…

Currently, no excise tax is applied to e-cigarettes in the US at the federal level. This report looks at bills being introduced at the state level to increase excise taxes on e-cigs…

This report focuses on EU requirements for waste heating devices, including e-cigarettes, since they contain batteries, coils, cartridges, and other components that can pose environmental hazards if not disposed of properly…

This report analyses the enforcement measures at federal, state and local level taken in the US in 2025 against illegal e-cigarettes…

This report provides an overview of the proposed amendment to royal decree 579/2017, which aims to ban e-cigarettes and e-liquids with flavours…

Synthetic nicotine analogues appeared on the US market in vaping and oral products, marketed as exempt from the FDA’s PMTA requirements. This report examines nicotine analogues and their regulation at both the federal and state level…

The report analyses enacted law and proposed bills that require tobacco products and e-cigarettes to be included in the tobacco directories before they can be distributed or sold in US states…

This report highlights the most significant changes in the March 2025 update of our EU environmental tracker, covering general environmental and sustainability policy proposals and adopted instruments affecting the vaping sector within the EU…

This report examines the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) enforcement measures taken in relation to unauthorised tobacco products, and analyses the warning letters sent out throughout 2024…

This database includes information about legislators that have proposed or sponsored bills related to tobacco products and e-cigarettes in the last four years…

This Q&A report analyses the US International Trade Commission (ITC) and its activity, and takes an in-depth look into its e-cigarette investigations and their potential impact on the industry…

This report tracks and analyses the challenges brought to court by vape companies of their marketing denial orders (MDOs) of their premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs)…

This report examines the open cases of a potential conflict of interest around the contractors providing services to the EU throughout the review of the tobacco control framework…

This report looks at the US concept of the continuum of risk that not all tobacco and nicotine products are equally harmful, traces the evolution of policy based on it over the years, and looks at what has happened to it since…

This report analyses the potential impact of recent changes in the “major questions doctrine”, which addresses the issue of how far US federal agencies can go in making policy on their own initiative…

This report looks at the US federal multi-agency task force to curb the distribution and sale of illegal e-cigarettes, examines options companies have, and summarises the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on illicit e-cigs…

This report explains what nicotine analogues are and what their current US federal legal status is, looks at criticism of the FDA’s lack of regulations on them, and predicts their future in the country…

This report analyses whether US states are considering the different harm profiles of tobacco products (which can include e-cigarettes) when taxing them, in order to encourage consumption of lower-risk products…

The report analyses enacted law and proposed bills that require tobacco products and e-cigarettes to be included in the tobacco directories before they can be distributed or sold in US states…

This report provides an update on the progress of the US Food and Drug Administration’s review of the PMTAs, and whether it has met its targets…

This short report details what ECigIntelligence considers the ten most significant vaping-related bills currently on the table in the 10 most highly populated US states…

This report examines the debate around possible bans on disposable e-cigs in Europe and through a case study of the French bill banning e-cigarettes, analyses if such a bill can be blocked by the EC…

This report examines the seizures of illegal e-cigarettes at US ports of entry, analysing the ports that receive the biggest volume of e-cigarette shipments and the customs values of those shipments…

This report examines state environment-related proposals that could impact the e-cigarette sector in the US, looking at any proposed bills in a variety of areas that relate to sustainability and the environment…

This report examines the challenge brought to court by Triton and Vapetasia, against the MDOs issued by the US FDA in response to both companies’ premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs)…

This report examines the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) enforcement measures taken in relation to unauthorised tobacco products, and analyses the warning letters sent out throughout 2023…

On 8th January, the US Supreme Court declined to hear tobacco company RJ Reynolds’ challenge to California’s flavour ban on tobacco products. This isn’t the first time a similar challenge has been rejected…

This report aims to briefly analyse the most important legal developments of 2023 related to the EU sustainability proposals that are most likely to impact the e-cigarette sector…

This report examines tribal territories in the US and how federal and state tobacco policy affects them, with analysis of specific case law examples…

In May 2023, the US FDA issued import alerts on multiple vape products and said any that do not have marketing authorisation will be detained at the border. This report looks at the process, implications and disagreements related to these import bans…

This tracker covers all environmental proposals at a US federal level that could impact e-cigarettes…

A new regulation on batteries was published in the EU Official Journal in July 2023. This report analyses the most important EU requirements related to portable batteries…

This report provides detailed analysis of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) report, which assessed the FDA’s efforts regarding online tobacco retailers’ compliance with the Tobacco Control Act…

This report examines the challenge brought to court by Avail Vapor against the marketing denial order issued by the US Food and Drug Administration in response to the company’s premarket tobacco product application…

This report discusses the background to this court decision requiring the FDA to submit status updates of the PMTA review, examines the timeline of these updates and provides analysis of the FDA’s progress…